{"id":421952,"date":"2010-03-12T19:16:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T23:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=12380"},"modified":"2010-03-12T19:16:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T23:16:18","slug":"irish-bookmaker-slashes-odds-on-pope%e2%80%99s-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/421952","title":{"rendered":"Irish bookmaker slashes odds on pope\u2019s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12382\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 360px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12382\" title=\"benedict\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/03\/benedict1-350x245-custom.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives to lead his weekly audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican March 10, 2010.  REUTERS\/Alessia Pierdomenico\" width=\"350\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Benedictat his weekly audience in the Vatican March 10, 2010\/Alessia Pierdomenico<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paddypower.com\/bet\">Irish bookmaker Paddy Power<\/a> said Friday it had cut the odds on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paddypower.com\/bet\/novelty-betting\/current-affairs\/the-next-pope?ev_oc_grp_ids=239030\">Pope  Benedict resigning<\/a> after allegations of child abuse by priests in  Germany gripped the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland&#8217;s biggest bookmaker, which has branches in Britain as  well as Catholic Ireland, said it had cut the odds from 12 to 1 to 3 to 1  following a <em>&#8220;cascade of bets.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The bookie also said it had cut the odds on Nigerian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arinze\">Cardinal  Francis Arinze<\/a> becoming<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paddypower.com\/bet\/current-affairs\/the-next-pope?ev_oc_grp_ids=967\"> the next pontiff<\/a> to 4 to 1, after what it called  a significant gamble. The firm said Arinze was now the clear favourite.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The dark clouds of clerical abuse scandals show no sign of  abating and recent reports from Germany are surely a little too close to  home for the pope,&#8221;<\/em> the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/idUKTRE62B4GT20100312\">Read the whole report here<\/a> and tell us what you think. Would Benedict ever resign? Does Arinze still have a chance?<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\"><span style=\"color: #005a84;\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at    RTRFaithWorld<\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedictat his weekly audience in the Vatican March 10, 2010\/Alessia Pierdomenico Irish bookmaker Paddy Power said Friday it had cut the odds on Pope Benedict resigning after allegations of child abuse by priests in Germany gripped the Roman Catholic Church. Ireland&#8217;s biggest bookmaker, which has branches in Britain as well as Catholic Ireland, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4076,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}